I can't reproduce the problem and don't see anything out of the ordinary in your cygcheck output. Could you do a $ which ar and see if you're really working with Cygwin's ar?
(I've just read Igor's reply - interesting hunch, but I'd have expected to be able to reproduce the problem..) rlc On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:48:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry ... I forgot to attach the informations about my system. > > I have the problem, that the command "ar" does work on "mounted" partitions. > ar cq libdh.a a.o b.o > does not work, if the current directory is on a linked filesystem. > The error message of "ar" is: > ar: libdh.a: rename: Cross-device link > make: *** [libdh.a] Error 1 > > The program works, when using local files, e.g. /usr/src or /cygdrive/c. > In the case described above the current directory "." referes > to /cygdrive/h which is mounted with the "Services for Unix" tools from > Microsoft (Version 3.0). > The operating system is Windows XP Professional. I installed cygwin > version 1.5.3(0.90/3/2): > > # uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PCHEMPEL2 1.5.3(0.90/3/2) 2003-09-01 13:15 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin > > > Thanks for your help > Daniel > > > (See attached file: cygcheck.out) > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Love thy neighbor, tune thy piano. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/